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Disc 1
Set 1:
1. ...Truckin
2. ...Sugaree
3. Mr. Charlie
4. Beat it On Down The Line
5. Loser
6. Jack Straw
7. Next Time You See Me
8. Tennessee Jed
9. El Paso
10. Big Railroad Blues
11. Me & My Uncle
12. Run, Rudolph, Run

Total time: 64:01

Disc 2
1. Black Peter
2. Playing in the Band
3. Casey Jones
Set 2:
4. ...Ramble On Rose
5. Mexicali Blues
6. Big Boss Man

Total time: 38:52

Disc 3
1. Cryptical Envelopment >
2. Drums >
3. The Other One >
4. Wharf Rat
5. Sugar Magnolia
6. You Win Again
7. Not Fade Away >
8. Going Down the Road >
9. Not Fade Away

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Reviewer: njpg - - December 14, 2012
Subject: Stream only,
no track labels.

Reviewer: rschwz28 - - January 4, 2012
Subject: Ron high
Pigpen high in the mix, at least in Truckin'.

How great was PITB before Donna joined?

Reviewer: myhungryhippo - - December 15, 2010
Subject: good recording sampled poorly
sounds like 56k sound 5 star for show 2 and a half for not being able to transfer

Reviewer: laughingsam - - September 27, 2010
Subject: BEWARE: NOISE REDUCTION
When noise reduction is applied too heavily it introduces artifacts and digi-noise into the sound. The between-song portions and tunings on here feature such artifacts.

I'm not posting this to be critical, just pointing out that sometimes "cleaning" these old tapes up presents new problems.

The show itself is fantastic. As there are other copies that haven't had noise reduction applied, I highly recommend streaming it.

A 5-star performance, reduced to 3 for the unnecessary sound artifacts.

Reviewer: oh_uh_um_ah - - April 30, 2009
Subject: The GRATEFUL DEAD "Live On Stage" December 14, 1971 at the Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
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~~~~~~~~! PIGPEN & KEITH !~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~ very rare show ~~~~~~~~~

Super 71' Soundboard!

~Hi-Fi Stereo-Phonic Sound~

I "Highly Recommend" adding this show to your 1971 GRATEFUL DEAD collection.

Remember to get the next night too, December 15th: http://www.archive.org/details/gd1971-12-15.sbd.miller.97718.sbeok.flac16

There aren't enough shows with Pigpen and Keith. These two incredible performers add so much fun, syncopation and rhythmical dimension to the GRATEFUL DEAD you have to get up and dance.

Pigpen and Keith made a special "Magic" only seen on earth for a brief moment in time, but it was captured on tape and is now available on the Internet Archive for all of us to hear, hopefully forever. It's too good to be true, but it is.

Billy's layin' down a solid in the pocket groove that makes you get up and dance. Jerry, Bobby, and Phil are of course amazingly incredible and the vocals are strong, confident, smooth and melodic.

This show is a "National Treasure".

This show is as close to perfection as you can get without dematerializing.

A "MUST HAVE" show from 1971.

"Classic 1971 Sound"

This show is fresh, exciting, interesting, fascinating, wonderful, and professional.

5 big fat Stars for the mix, recording, performance and transfer. Thanks Jeff, we owe you one.

The IA recommends users of Windows XP view this web-page with RealPlayer. RealPlayer is a free media player you can download at www.realplayer.com.

For easy streaming or downloading use RealPlayer. Click the VBR M3U link to open the songs in the Playlist. If your Playlist is not open, open it by clicking the Playlist icon at the lower right hand corner of RealPlayer. Once the songs are in the Playlist, double click the song to play it, then click the record button at the lower left hand corner of Realplayer to record it. When the red line reaches the other end click the stop button to download the song. Your song is in the RealPlayer Downloads folder. Repeat these steps for each song.

Eat, Drink, Be Merry and Listen to the GRATEFUL DEAD.

Thanks for the LOVE from 1971.

PS: Get em' while you can, get em' while they're free, get em' now or you'll be sorry...the Man giveth and the Man taketh away...WTTW

Remember to click on the DeadLists Project link and get the poster and ticket stub for this show.

PSS: It's a shame these "new" fans of the GRATEFUL DEAD just don't appreciate Pigpen and his contributions he made to the band.

Reviewer: thebone - - April 30, 2009
Subject: Top of the Hill
This was a nice show, with excellent sound quality. Not quite a 5, but clearly a good strong 4. Favorite tune: GDTRFB baby!!!

Reviewer: pulp79 - - April 28, 2009
Subject: Sounds great!
Definitely an upgrade to the previous sources found here. I'm glad to see someone finally clean this one up a little. This has always been one of my favorite '71's, but now I'm able to appreciate it's greatness even more. None of the hiss that was especially distracting during the quieter songs.

Thanks Jeff! Time to go listen to it, now. I'll probably have more, later.

edit:Wow, I forgot that these early Jack Straws had Bob singing lead the whole song, instead of switching back and forth between he and Jerry. Still, it's excellent!

Also, one of the best Other One suites of the year, without question!

Notes

The SHN files were sent to me (SHN files generated on a Power Mac 7100 from WAV files
extracted from a Plextor 4/12 PXR-412C using Toast Audio Extractor), but I was unhappy
with a bit of tape hiss that was apparent throughout the show. I was able to combine
all tracks and apply a noise reduction filter using the Sonic Foundry Noise Reduction
Plugin for Sound Forge 4.5. This got rid of the annoying tape his that was prevalent
throughout the show. I then normalize and retracked the show using CDWav to assure that
all track splits were done on correct sector boundries. There were also a few other
blemishes that I corrected using Sound Forge, but those were minimal.

Any questions?

Email: jeff@shakedown.etree.org